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Ernst Junger: Storm of Steel
I picked up a cheap copy of Storm of Steel. This was one of the first WWI memoirs, and still one of the best.
Ernst Junger had a very interesting and productive life, courted and then renounced by left and right, the youngest person to ever receive Germany's highest military decoration, Pour Le Merite (Rommel had one from WW1), and the last person alive with one until his death in 1998. He became a renowned entomologist as well as a writer.
He refused to join the Nazis and resigned from his unit's veterans association when Jews were expelled. Refused to undergo denazification after WWII, spent most of the war in Paris.
But also a bit of a crank - experimented with LSD in the sixties! He lived to be 102!
All in all, a remarkable life, well lived don't you think?
Ernst Junger had a very interesting and productive life, courted and then renounced by left and right, the youngest person to ever receive Germany's highest military decoration, Pour Le Merite (Rommel had one from WW1), and the last person alive with one until his death in 1998. He became a renowned entomologist as well as a writer.
He refused to join the Nazis and resigned from his unit's veterans association when Jews were expelled. Refused to undergo denazification after WWII, spent most of the war in Paris.
But also a bit of a crank - experimented with LSD in the sixties! He lived to be 102!
All in all, a remarkable life, well lived don't you think?
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